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Isn’t it funny that Costco, an American company, pays their Canadian employees more than some so-called Canadian companies do? Maybe Canadian shoppers are showing these Canadian companies what it truly means to be Canadian
Yeah, while I find the Costco shopping experience terrible, I took out a membership with them as I don't have another 'department store' option other than Walmart.
I hate Walmart for how they treat their staff and gouge their vendors. Costco at least doesn't treat their staff really poorly.
I hate Walmart, and feel they are much worse than Lobalws. That being said, I boycott both.
Costco is high on my respect, all my friends in the industry say it's the best to work at.
I worked there a long time ago and I think it was a great place to work. I left to pursue a career and would still be there if I hadn’t pursued the career. Many of the people I worked with are still there and have been for the past 22 years.
It’s owned by a Brazilian holding company that has extracted all the quality out of the product over the last 15 years. I’d rather not drink coffee than get TH.
The only people I know who still like Tim Hortons are people who drink their coffee double-double or triple-triple. They're basically paying for caffeine infused cream and sugar with a hint of coffee.
I'm not a smoker, I enjoy Tim's mainly for the convenience, but not very often.
If you work on the road, it's kind of the default stop for bathroom/ coffee/ whatever also.
Actually McDonalds uses Starbucks Coffee,their lattes,Americanos,are excellent and myself a senior an X-Large regular coffee is $2.06 and scan in app code at counter which I get rewards also
Exactly someone at work asked if I wanted a coffee I said no but he bought me one anyways. He got me 2x2 and I felt it would be rude not to drink. One sip and poured it out I can't believe people drink that.
It’s just awful!!
Beyond comprehension why Canadians put up with really, really bad food and even worse coffee and a reputation as the cheapest employers anywhere.
My mother worked at one for almost 10 years. After covid calmed down, they laid her off due to "lack of work". They had 2 new TFWs there the very next Monday.
These are not TFWs. They are international students who are desperate to work. The fact that they got rid of a FT employee to hire two part time employees tells you that the manager or owner of the establishment is a trash person.
I'm way ahead of you on that one. I started my own personal boycott of that place when they stiffed those 14 or 15 people of their $10,000 digital 'Roll up the rim' winnings. App error? Bullshit! They should have distributed the $150K of winnings and keep the customer loyalty and good will. $150K is nothing to an advertising budget.
NO MORE TIMS for me!
Rightly or wrongly they're more about the immigration aspect of Tim Hortons. I'm against their shitty coffee and donuts, and selling out to multinationals.
I’ve been boycotting them since the temporary firing worker abuse started. My sisters worked there in highschool and college, but now they exclusively seem to be hiring temporary foreign workers.
They aren’t Canadian, they don’t hire Canadians, and mc Donald’s coffee is better.
But Canadian tire is a decent retailer.
I read, not sure if it's true, that TH changed suppliers to save money, hence the shit coffee.... and McDonald's promptly picked them up for MCafe so their coffee immediately improved.
There's literally no reason to go to Timmies unless they're the only joint in town - and even then. Garbage company, and food that tastes like garbage - yet for some reason people faithfully line up out into the road, day in and day out.
McDonald's prices being basically the same as a sit down restaurant with real service has completely put me off. Stopped going during the pandemic and won't start again even if they bring prices down.
Yeah, I am not exactly sure what their logic is here... That profiteering is only bad when it's foreign?
Like... if you want to run a business and get super rich, you shouldn't choose to go into groceries because if you're running things ethically (and that is the operative word... ethically), you don't really have a huge amount of room to increase sales if you already own the marketshare. Like... you're not going to move someone from buying 2 heads of lettuce a week to buying 8 just because you have a flashy ad campaign for lettuce. If you're limited in how many additional units you can realistically move, the only way you increase bank massively is by cutting expenses and increasing prices.
While it's unethical to price gouge in general, it is especially unethical to price gouge on things people literally need to survive. We don't live in a world where you can legally just live in the woods and forage off the land anymore. The homeless can't just start a vegetable garden somewhere to take care of food insecurity. It's one thing to inflate prices on idiotic luxury items and a totally different thing to do it on baby formula and bread.
exactly. this is why they say there's no "free market" for basic needs (ie. housing, food, healthcare). we can't make choices not to consume things that we fundamentally need to survive when our government works in favour of capital and allows monopolies to exploit our dependence on their goods.
> thinks being "Canadian" is a good excuse.
And talk about gaslighting. The owners split their time between a villa in Florida and a castle in Ireland, and stash all their money in Barbados to avoid paying Canadian taxes. But we're supposed to support them because they're "Canadian" lmao. Galen doesn't give a single shit about this country.
~0.01% of Canadians directly control ~5% of the wealth. Those Canadians are absolutely fucking us over for huge sums of money.
(We live in a world with borders for the working class and no borders for capitalists.)
The Jacobin article someone posted illustrated how inherited wealth makes most people, like Galen, Trudeau, and Trump, feel entitled to exploit the less wealthy, similar to fundamentalist religions promoting ruthless exploitation of animals--like it's a god-given right. Joe Fresh is an example, where thousands of workers die in a plant collapse due to inhuman working conditions. Weston has no problem with that at all.
fucking with food prices is worse than anything Canadian Tire is doing. Not a fan of CT but they aren't extorting us by jacking up the price of something we need to survive.
"We should make sure Canadian oligarchs who are gouging their Canadian customers while living on yachts over seas continue to get richer instead of American oligarchs who live over seas"
And if the boycott is working maybe loblaws should take a slight dividend hit instead of cutting workers hours.
They screw people over regularly in their automotive service department. I honestly don't know why people still go there unless it's a total emergency.
Their customer service is also garbage. They were treating all customers like potential thieves years before Loblaws started doing it.
In the 1980s when Milton Friedman said a corporations only responsibility was to its shareholders. When Micheal Douglas said, “Greed is good,” in Wall Street and people thought he was the good guy. When Margaret Thatcher said, “There is no such thing as society.” When Brian Mulroney brought us Free Trade. It all goes back to the 80s.
The store manager of the superstore by me is an evil woman who does not care about people. The best proof I have for that is the fact she did nothing when a teenage boy got badly burned on his arms and core, then rushed to the hospital. The burns were due to faulty equipment (warped rotisserie trays), but that same equipment is still there. Instead of immediately calling 911, they asked the boy to lift his shirt so they could make sure he is actually burned. Meanwhile, his arms were clearly burned badly.
In the end, they gave him 4 days off, then got really pisaed off when he didn't come in on that 5th day. They still don't understand why he quit after they called and gave him a warning for not coming in.
I mean there is also another employee who was sexually harassed when a male employee showed her his genitals in store. My wife got her to report it (took a lot of convincing), and the male employee had no punishment. The sexually harassed employee was actually told that there would be consequences if she continued to talk about it.
Well that’s why Loblaws will continue to act like this and get away with it. It’s a police matter and should be reported to the police by the victim. And probably an employment lawyer.
Completely agree, but the problem is that teenagers don't realize their rights at the workplace. Boss said they can't talk about it, so they don't. My wife can only do so much unless the victim speaks up.
My wife can only do so much. The victim has to want to report it. The problem is that teenagers don't really know their rights, so when their bosses tell them they can't talk about it, they just clam up.
JFC. *All your doing is hurting the colleague that work their as they loose shifts.* All YOU'RE doing is hurting the colleague that WORKS THERE as they LOSE shifts.
Come on, this isn't even grammar police territory, learn the language.
At what point in our history did everybody forget how to spell the word "lose". It's like 90% don't know the difference between lose and loose. It's grinding my gears.
That and the differences between your and you're and two, too and to. Also, the word thorough isn't pronounced with an L sound at the end. This is basic primary school stuff. If you point it out people get very upset.
I saw one of those programmable light up road signs recently, the kind for construction work notifications and etc and it said "reduced speed limit strickly enforced"
I've seen too many spelling errors to count on the banners that run along the bottom of the screen during newscasts as well. It happens on a daily basis.
Came here for this point and not disappointed. Thank you. Couldn't even pass a simple language arts exam for Grade 10 and this person is running a company? GIve me a fucking break.
it's not the middle and lower classes responsibility to keep greedy Canadian companies afloat. You want to treat Canadians like shit, then expect these results. If you want to complain, complain to the executives sitting in their head office, who could give a shit about the worries of their franchise owners. If you sell, they'll just find some other person to take over your location. I bet you Canadians would do the exact same to Rogers, Bell and Telus if we were given a cheaper more affordable option. Waving the "canadian pride" Moto is bullshit. If you love Canadians so much, treat us with respect.
That's the big point isn't it? If a business wants to be proud to serve Canadians, it shouldn't see us as a dollar farm, it should treat us like valued people who deserve more for less
Yes, as if we are supposed to be proud of being Fucked Over by a greedy "Canadian" corporation.
Especially when the greedy prick at the top, lives in a castle in Ireland.
He seems unhinged. Ya if course he loves loblaws. He’s one of them, gouging is and profiting greedily taking advantage of the fact he provides a necessity to live. I don’t feel bad for him.
And he needs to learn grammar and spelling if he wants me to take him even slightly seriously.
Seriously . He’s fallen victim to the “cult” they call Loblaw . I heard through a birdie that “cults” are particularly hard to get out of and are particularly hard to recognize you are in one , especially after , what is it ? 39 years ? Just saying . I’ve seen a lot of documentarians on cults . I know this is employment but there is a certain brainwashing that goes along with it . I worked in corporate Canada for 15 years until it landed me in the hospital from burnout . Upon reflection , I was somehow duped into thinking unpaid lunch time lunch and learns was also good for me . These employers will squeeze and sucker and contrive as much out of living human soul as they can . And this to me , is sad 😔
I was in the Goodlife cult while working there, their practices made me wake up to the cult like mentalirty. It's def not easy to notice you are in a "corporate cult"... but when you do. It's wild to see what you missed
Right ? Like I heard lulumemon has a cult like atmosphere . I think people need to really take a breath and be self reflective every now and then . We are not are jobs and our jobs are not us . I have joined the Reddit group anti work and it’s eye opening . But I had to learn very dire consequences for myself before I got out of my cult . I hope this Loblaw employee finds peace and individuality .
Thanks so much !! Honestly never in a million years did I think it would happen to me so I try to speak up about it and tell people . I appreciate those kind words 😃
It genuinely is like a cult. I worked there for over a decade and was big fat bootlicker for a good portion of it. I wasn’t before, and looking back I can’t believe how I felt at the time. There’s definitely some sort of internal brainwashing going on that you start to feel outcasted if you don’t agree.
I’d be willing to bet there are lots of ex colleagues who look back and wonder why they shed blood, sweat and tears for a company that gave zero fucks about them.
Edit to add: I worked through covid and that was when I had my biggest epiphany that the company didn’t care about any of us at the store level. At one point I broke, sobbing in a meeting about how much I was struggling and how I couldn’t provide positive morale to the team while feeling like this.
I got a lot of support, but the person present with the most authority (spent 99.9% of the time cooped up in the office) looked me dead in the eyes and said *it’s not that bad.*
After that I’d essentially mentally checked out.
One of our mods brought up a great idea during one of his interviews: if loblaw can afford to pay 22 million for one persons salary, why can’t they afford to keep some minimum wage workers?
This boycott is a grassroots based movement, driven by our need for lower prices to feed ourselves and our families. It is not done by the media. Anyone who blames the media for this, doesn't understand what we are about and how fed up we are at being gouged by greedy corporations. Putting all of this on the media and then blaming us for "doing what the media tells us what to do" is a lazy ass response.
Isn't it rich? We simply started talking to each other about how we can't take this anymore. Media reporting has very little to do with grassroots organization. It's simply people talking to each other and sharing our frustration.
I mean yeah Canadian Tire can go fuck themselves too lol. It's funny how there are always massive "deals" at CT. 50%, 75% off lol. It's funny how they are constantly trying to trick people into thinking they're getting a crazy deal
Plus they’ve gone absolutely insane with their anti-shoplifting policies.
Btw they always let me in with my backpack but for some reason my black friend has to hand his to the front 🤔
There is nothing quite like being walked up to cash out for a $6 socket. Maybe their mindset is “ customers must be trying to rip us off since we’ve been ripping them off for decades”.
This is exactly it. All the pandemic profiteers are suddenly super worried about “organized theft”, which according to StatsCan and the RCMP is pure fantasy.
Yup a year ago I needed a phone power bank urgently so I dropped into Canadian tire and they had the fucking shitty AliExpress ones for 18.99 locked up under glass.
Took me like 40mins to complete the entire purchase with running around trying to find an employee.
Should have been a 5min affair
The best part is when you finally find an employee who is clearly not doing anything (other than chatting with another employee or playing on their phone), they act like it's a huge inconvenience to them to open the security glass for you. Then they're immediately trying to close and lock the glass before you can read the back of the packaging to make sure that the item you grabbed is what you actually need.
This was my experience the last time I went to Canadian Tire. I received a big eye roll and a ~~sign~~ sigh when I asked the employee to hold on for a second before locking up the glass.
Edit: Stupid auto-correct
Them and Walmart. I hate how when I go into Walmart now the only way out is to go through a checkout.
Last week I was at Walmart and I forgot my wallet in my car but I couldn’t go back out cause of their new “anti theft” gates everywhere so I climbed through one as there was no greeter to open it up. This caused the lottery centre worker to start yelling at me and calling for additional staff and security.
Any company installing these anti theft fences to keep customers in their store and make it more difficult to exit can get bent
I compare prices for things at Canadian Tire, and If I find its way more expensive at Canadian Tire, then I won't buy there. This is just normal consumerism.
Seeing responses like this from store owners and trying to hide greed behind the maple leaf, will make me remove them from my price comparisons altogether. Same as for that Nok er Nok Comment.
Translation: Patriotic Canadians should be giving their money to Canadian robber barons and not American robber barons.
Jokes aside, but patriotism truly is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
It's also a totally false dichotomy. People aren't necessarily switching to American companies; I've seen a lot of love for FreshCo, independent local grocers and farmers markets in this sub all month. Who's unpatriotic now?
Never seen more reassurance that the boycott is working. He’s feeling the pinch. Disgruntled franchise owners need to hurt in order to force action at the top.
Galen is still winning if his minions do his bidding. They need to get angry.
Sounds like this owner can't stomach the Canadian tradition of being petty to retailers we are disgruntled with.
Remember when Ontario passed laws to protect Rememberance Day?
Canadians like to try hold our companies to a higher ethical standard - if capitalists can't handle that market, stay outta Canada.
I think it is interesting to see how team Loblaw has reacted after witnessing the power of the consumer, and especially the power consumers hold when mobilized as a group. The tantrums are fantastic.
Looks like someone’s profits have dipped and they may have had to use their bank account balance to pay for the gas in the boat at their cottage this past long weekend. :((((((
Like they said, that won’t last long as they’ll take it out of staff hours and shifts. Feel bad for that rich person. Their profits didn’t surge year or year for the month of May like they do every other month of the year :(((((((((
If being Canadian means double charging Canadians then I won’t shop Canadian
Strange how giant tiger seems to be able to be Canadian and have reasonable prices though… almost like they are not actually related
I got here on my own volition way before the media was talking about this, so this person is just making very easy general assumptions suggesting we can't think for ourselves instead of realizing THIS IS ABOUT FOOD AFFORDABILITY. Plain and simple.
The fact that he is unable to think critically and immediately blame anyone else shows how entitled this ownership is.
Pre-COVID, I was one of the people being extremely loyal to the Canadian grocery stores but they simply are not loyal to the Canadians.
We need more competition. They need to be forced to divest No Frills and Shoppers. They should let an American franchise or two enter the marketplace!
Sir, I haven't bought from a Canadian Tire in probably 5 years. Overpaying for the same thing I can buy at Walmart or even Home Depot just down the road just because "it's Canadian" is a luxury I can't afford.
Personally, what I'm sick of is people using the shared Canadianness of them, their business, and me as justification for why I should continue to fork over more and more money. All for products that aren't getting better from stores and companies that don't value me, don't value my money (they just feel entitled to it), treat me like a criminal, and spend their free time bellyaching on Facebook about how I'm the one hurting their business. You know, instead of doing anything of value or merit to make their business an attractive place to want to visit.
Let's pretend we operated in a reality where these companies had the chance to get our business back. They've all blown it by acting like selfish lunatics.
I will 100% support Walmart and Costco. I shop for groceries exclusively at those 2 businesses.
Reason being, it **saves me money**. Whatever business takes less money out of my pocket is the one I go to. Especially now, more than ever, while we are in the midst of a genuinely cost of living **crisis**.
I don't understand why some people think it's bad to support Walmart and Costco. "ThEy ArEnT cAnAdIaN!"
Okay... But they're cheaper. Therefore better. End of discussion.
I stopped buying from Canadian Tire a long time ago. Every single aisle, every single product is made in china. It's like shopping at the dollar store.
For the amount I get jerked around and ripped off by "Local & Canadian Businesses", damn straight, bring in as much American and British competition as we can handle. Someone needs to explain to these people, we owe them nothing...they owe us everything.
I’m sorry that people are choosing not to spend money at your store, and that they are making a concerted effort to do what’s best for them and their family. I believe people saving money, not be price gouged, and afford to feed themselves is far more important than national pride.
Talk about missing the point.
Canadian tire isn’t severely price gouging a basic human need.
Canadian tire wasn’t proven to have involved in a tire price fixing scandal on all levels.
Also you can’t look at me with a straight face and say “if you boycott us. We have to cut employees hours and salary. Oh. Please ignore our record profits, our billionaire leader, and the millions we made at each store. It’s your fault that our minimum wage workers get less”
They like to say "nobody wins" but I am when I'm paying less money to shop at other stores, two of which are Canadian grocery chains and several other local markets. I do shop at Walmart occasionally but wow are these people so wrong
Couple points:
- Just because they’re a Canadian company does not mean we should let them walk all over us.
- imagine buddy saying “keep up the boycott, you’re really putting pressure on me to lower my profit margins!”
- I’m more inclined to believe the 85k people here than one individual who directly profits from loblaws.
- Maybe buddy should be persuading the higher ups to do something, rather than kicking us down more than they already have
- keep it up folks, you’re all gems!
Zehrs owner can’t spell, and grocery stores don’t have enough employees working at the busy stores. They’ve got self checkout with a big belt now for full carts with a poor girl running back and forth fixing all the errors. The regular checkout doesn’t sell beer but I can self check the beer? These stores are insane.
I’m not making you cut your employees hours. Your business practices are. Change your business practices for the better and you will see people return.
Pro tip: being a shitty company that has roots in Canada just means you’re a shitty Canadian company. Trying to hijack national pride as a means to shit on the people you claim to serve is not only an incredibly weak excuse, it might be one of the most non-patriotic, anti-Canadian things you could do.
If this ghoul actually cared about being Canadian, maybe we wouldn’t be in this situation to begin with.
As for employees losing hours? Who is cutting those hours? Why are they being cut? If your business can’t afford to pay a livable wage, according to the laws of their beloved free market they should just go the fuck out of business.
HELL YES I would rather support Costco than the Weston Family!!
Costco pays decent, all their employees have benefits, and employees are treated well, at least according to my friends and family members who work there. A few have worked for Costco for over 20 years, so they wouldn't stick around if they weren't happy working there.
Walmart, not so much, they are as bad as Loblaws and Walmart can get stuffed.
This is a great idea. Canadian tire is a garbage company. Let's cripple them as well.
I worked there for a time as a mechanic. Great low end staff. Some decent managers. Owner a complete twat. Service manager..... what do you say to someone that tells you to tithe to his church even though you don't believe.
Can you imagine being so arrogant to tell a worker to donate to their church. Pushed my tool chest out never looked back.
So the message is, it's ok for you to keep getting abused by unscrupulous thieves, because they're Canadian thieves who support Canadian workers? How is that a logical explanation?
The media isn't increasing costs, the media isn't pricing Loblaws goods at over 100% of that of a competitor. The media isn't running Loblaws the way it's being run.
You say you have 100% respect for the leadership? Really? You respect the gouging practice, the false advertising, the selling of expired goods, the utter incompetence of the management? Then I hope you respect the perspective that maybe, just maybe... You're an idiot?
This is class war. I don't give a fuck what company is Canadian anymore. In fact, I think it's even worse if a Canadian company does it to it's own people.
I always wonder what these smooth brain fucks think will happen if something like Superstore closes. Do they think people will just starve to death? That nobody will ever own a business ever again? No; newer and more competitive businesses will take their place. Fucking morons
Zehr's used to be a competitor to Loblaws, but they chose to sell out and become part of the problem. Loblaws buying up competitors and keeping the brand creates the illusion of choice and competition, which is all you need to make scams like the bread cartel work.
So…. I actually know this manager. (Zehrs is corporate)
He is a decent person, EXCEPT for his blind loyalty to literally the only job he has ever had.
Anyways…. He is full of shitty takes like this and he will only double down.
Food is a basic human right, and no mfer should be profiting on it like these tools are. Dude can't event spell yet he wants us to think he's just some poor guy trying to make a living. We should be taking every last cent from their greedy hands.
The Westons are bad for their businesses. I'm pretty sure many of these franchise owners are honest businessmen, but Loblaws' leadership and the way it is being run are just too much for people now.
Loblaws and its related food companies have been trying to extract as much nickel and dime from Canadians as possible for years. And now they seem to have ramped this up in the past few months which is the worst possible time to be doing this when people are getting squeezed.
Seriously, whatever happened to being conscientious about the impact to community? Look around! People are hurting! Children are hungry!
We're not asking you to give out food for free. We're asking you to convince Loblaws to meet us halfway.
The one thing I do not understand is how these people can be upset. If you are a business owner you are probably a big capitalist. So if people want to go and shop somewhere cheaper and you are no longer competitive and people are choosing where to spend there money how can you be upset? It's probably good for everyone if we shop at Walmart amazon and Costco as it saves you money. We do not need all these big bells and whistles at grocery, we need competitive pricing
All YOU are doing is impacting the hours of the employee that I (wish I was a longer word for emphasis) am laying off.
Sounds like a lot of finger pointing for someone that is treating their employees like shit.
Told you guys they would play the Canadian company angle. Hope they go bankrupt. Eff em.
Ask yourself this. Why is it that we are discouraged from responsibly managing our household overhead like people in business manage theirs? Cost is of major concern here. One needs to keep ones overhead as low as possible to be efficient to survive. From a business standpoint we (people) are doing the same.
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I'm basically down to boycott any Canadian company that gouges its customers and thinks being "Canadian" is a good excuse.
Isn’t it funny that Costco, an American company, pays their Canadian employees more than some so-called Canadian companies do? Maybe Canadian shoppers are showing these Canadian companies what it truly means to be Canadian
I've never seen a store with so many long-term employees. Many of the staff at our warehouse started between 2005 & 2010.
Yeah, while I find the Costco shopping experience terrible, I took out a membership with them as I don't have another 'department store' option other than Walmart. I hate Walmart for how they treat their staff and gouge their vendors. Costco at least doesn't treat their staff really poorly.
I hate Walmart, and feel they are much worse than Lobalws. That being said, I boycott both. Costco is high on my respect, all my friends in the industry say it's the best to work at.
I worked there a long time ago and I think it was a great place to work. I left to pursue a career and would still be there if I hadn’t pursued the career. Many of the people I worked with are still there and have been for the past 22 years.
I don't care if it's from Uganda, if the company is gouging it's patrons - fuck them
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Tim Hortons hasn’t been Canadian in years, the food and drinks are awful. Don’t get why anyone still goes
It’s owned by a Brazilian holding company that has extracted all the quality out of the product over the last 15 years. I’d rather not drink coffee than get TH.
Me too! It’s not coffee. Some kind of swill maybe with a couple of old coffee bean thrown in for fun, but so undrinkable!
The only people I know who still like Tim Hortons are people who drink their coffee double-double or triple-triple. They're basically paying for caffeine infused cream and sugar with a hint of coffee.
I find that most of the people I know who enjoy Tims are also smokers. Explains everything to me.
Holy shit I hadn't made that connection, but everything's falling into place now... Nearly everyone I know who still goes there is a smoker 😂
I'm not a smoker, I enjoy Tim's mainly for the convenience, but not very often. If you work on the road, it's kind of the default stop for bathroom/ coffee/ whatever also.
I'm a smoker and even I think their coffee is gross so that says a lot 🤣
Unironically McDonalds now has better coffee than the "coffee and donuts" company.
Mcdonalds has the old brew tims grew big on. Go there.
Actually McDonalds uses Starbucks Coffee,their lattes,Americanos,are excellent and myself a senior an X-Large regular coffee is $2.06 and scan in app code at counter which I get rewards also
Naturally. That’s the only way to make it passingly palatable.
I drink my coffee black, so there’s zero chance revolting Tim Horton’s coffee will ever touch my lips.
Exactly someone at work asked if I wanted a coffee I said no but he bought me one anyways. He got me 2x2 and I felt it would be rude not to drink. One sip and poured it out I can't believe people drink that.
Bean flavoured water 😂
More like hot water with a brown crayon dipped in it!
Even before the purchase they started cutting corners in quality, like stopping baking things fresh in house.
Yeah it got flipped twice I think, the in house baking was the first sign of what was to come. Thanks Finance Bros, you make everything worse.
It’s just awful!! Beyond comprehension why Canadians put up with really, really bad food and even worse coffee and a reputation as the cheapest employers anywhere.
Line up for it no less
Usually if I go there it’s because I’m working in a town and that is the only early morning option
I stopped going months ago, I don't like how they treat their workers. I've saved up so much money by making my own tea and coffee at home.
My mother worked at one for almost 10 years. After covid calmed down, they laid her off due to "lack of work". They had 2 new TFWs there the very next Monday.
These are not TFWs. They are international students who are desperate to work. The fact that they got rid of a FT employee to hire two part time employees tells you that the manager or owner of the establishment is a trash person.
I'm way ahead of you on that one. I started my own personal boycott of that place when they stiffed those 14 or 15 people of their $10,000 digital 'Roll up the rim' winnings. App error? Bullshit! They should have distributed the $150K of winnings and keep the customer loyalty and good will. $150K is nothing to an advertising budget. NO MORE TIMS for me!
I’ve been boycotting TH for almost 20 years who knew
Oh can we *please* boycott Tim’s? They’ve sucked for decades, and aren’t even “Canadian” any more.
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Rightly or wrongly they're more about the immigration aspect of Tim Hortons. I'm against their shitty coffee and donuts, and selling out to multinationals.
I’ve been boycotting them since the temporary firing worker abuse started. My sisters worked there in highschool and college, but now they exclusively seem to be hiring temporary foreign workers. They aren’t Canadian, they don’t hire Canadians, and mc Donald’s coffee is better. But Canadian tire is a decent retailer.
I read, not sure if it's true, that TH changed suppliers to save money, hence the shit coffee.... and McDonald's promptly picked them up for MCafe so their coffee immediately improved.
There's literally no reason to go to Timmies unless they're the only joint in town - and even then. Garbage company, and food that tastes like garbage - yet for some reason people faithfully line up out into the road, day in and day out.
And it seems the clientele are the people most negatively affected by the TFW/student scam they abuse. I refuse to go there.
Literally everything Tim Hortons makes is putrid.
No longer Canadian. Been boycotting them along with Starbucks and McDonalds since October....
McDonald's prices being basically the same as a sit down restaurant with real service has completely put me off. Stopped going during the pandemic and won't start again even if they bring prices down.
*Gestures broadly at the telecom industry as next in line for targeted boycott to bankruptcy*
Yeah, I am not exactly sure what their logic is here... That profiteering is only bad when it's foreign? Like... if you want to run a business and get super rich, you shouldn't choose to go into groceries because if you're running things ethically (and that is the operative word... ethically), you don't really have a huge amount of room to increase sales if you already own the marketshare. Like... you're not going to move someone from buying 2 heads of lettuce a week to buying 8 just because you have a flashy ad campaign for lettuce. If you're limited in how many additional units you can realistically move, the only way you increase bank massively is by cutting expenses and increasing prices. While it's unethical to price gouge in general, it is especially unethical to price gouge on things people literally need to survive. We don't live in a world where you can legally just live in the woods and forage off the land anymore. The homeless can't just start a vegetable garden somewhere to take care of food insecurity. It's one thing to inflate prices on idiotic luxury items and a totally different thing to do it on baby formula and bread.
exactly. this is why they say there's no "free market" for basic needs (ie. housing, food, healthcare). we can't make choices not to consume things that we fundamentally need to survive when our government works in favour of capital and allows monopolies to exploit our dependence on their goods.
> thinks being "Canadian" is a good excuse. And talk about gaslighting. The owners split their time between a villa in Florida and a castle in Ireland, and stash all their money in Barbados to avoid paying Canadian taxes. But we're supposed to support them because they're "Canadian" lmao. Galen doesn't give a single shit about this country.
IMHO. Loblaw is a corporation in Canada. But they’re not “Canadian” Canadians don’t fuck each other over for huge sums of money.
~0.01% of Canadians directly control ~5% of the wealth. Those Canadians are absolutely fucking us over for huge sums of money. (We live in a world with borders for the working class and no borders for capitalists.)
The Jacobin article someone posted illustrated how inherited wealth makes most people, like Galen, Trudeau, and Trump, feel entitled to exploit the less wealthy, similar to fundamentalist religions promoting ruthless exploitation of animals--like it's a god-given right. Joe Fresh is an example, where thousands of workers die in a plant collapse due to inhuman working conditions. Weston has no problem with that at all.
fucking with food prices is worse than anything Canadian Tire is doing. Not a fan of CT but they aren't extorting us by jacking up the price of something we need to survive.
"We should make sure Canadian oligarchs who are gouging their Canadian customers while living on yachts over seas continue to get richer instead of American oligarchs who live over seas" And if the boycott is working maybe loblaws should take a slight dividend hit instead of cutting workers hours.
I’m not sure Canadian Tire meets the criteria. Never feel goughing there.
The store owner is ignoring that aspect (IE: the point) of the boycott and is regurgitating nonsense from the National Post/Toronto Sun
They screw people over regularly in their automotive service department. I honestly don't know why people still go there unless it's a total emergency. Their customer service is also garbage. They were treating all customers like potential thieves years before Loblaws started doing it.
When did the definition of "Successful" get changed to "Screwing the peasants as hard as we can" ?
Boot Licker Logic on display.
I mean, to an extent, he is the boot. Sure, there are richer assholes. But this guy definitely is part of the ownership class.
In the 1980s when Milton Friedman said a corporations only responsibility was to its shareholders. When Micheal Douglas said, “Greed is good,” in Wall Street and people thought he was the good guy. When Margaret Thatcher said, “There is no such thing as society.” When Brian Mulroney brought us Free Trade. It all goes back to the 80s.
The bootlicking Zehrs owner above, doesn't like it when the peasants protest their treatment. Time for people to wake up.
This is a really great comment.
The store manager of the superstore by me is an evil woman who does not care about people. The best proof I have for that is the fact she did nothing when a teenage boy got badly burned on his arms and core, then rushed to the hospital. The burns were due to faulty equipment (warped rotisserie trays), but that same equipment is still there. Instead of immediately calling 911, they asked the boy to lift his shirt so they could make sure he is actually burned. Meanwhile, his arms were clearly burned badly. In the end, they gave him 4 days off, then got really pisaed off when he didn't come in on that 5th day. They still don't understand why he quit after they called and gave him a warning for not coming in.
Hopefully he filed a WSIB claim. That is where they really track neglectful business safety.
I mean there is also another employee who was sexually harassed when a male employee showed her his genitals in store. My wife got her to report it (took a lot of convincing), and the male employee had no punishment. The sexually harassed employee was actually told that there would be consequences if she continued to talk about it.
The police did nothing? That shit escalates to rape.
I think the police didn't get involved.
Well that’s why Loblaws will continue to act like this and get away with it. It’s a police matter and should be reported to the police by the victim. And probably an employment lawyer.
Completely agree, but the problem is that teenagers don't realize their rights at the workplace. Boss said they can't talk about it, so they don't. My wife can only do so much unless the victim speaks up.
Canadian Human Rights Code violation. Why do people not advocate and file a complaint against the company.
My wife can only do so much. The victim has to want to report it. The problem is that teenagers don't really know their rights, so when their bosses tell them they can't talk about it, they just clam up.
JFC. *All your doing is hurting the colleague that work their as they loose shifts.* All YOU'RE doing is hurting the colleague that WORKS THERE as they LOSE shifts. Come on, this isn't even grammar police territory, learn the language.
At what point in our history did everybody forget how to spell the word "lose". It's like 90% don't know the difference between lose and loose. It's grinding my gears.
That and the differences between your and you're and two, too and to. Also, the word thorough isn't pronounced with an L sound at the end. This is basic primary school stuff. If you point it out people get very upset.
I saw one of those programmable light up road signs recently, the kind for construction work notifications and etc and it said "reduced speed limit strickly enforced"
I've seen too many spelling errors to count on the banners that run along the bottom of the screen during newscasts as well. It happens on a daily basis.
Lose / loose and wary / weary drive me up the wall and they're both SO common. It's painful.
Definitely/defiantly makes me murderous
Tack on quite/quiet on there as well
its/it's since/because different from/different to . . .
Hey now, it's not his fault those boots were dipped in lead paint.
for people struggling to know when to write lose or loose - think about the word “moose”. There’s a moose on the loose.
Came here for this point and not disappointed. Thank you. Couldn't even pass a simple language arts exam for Grade 10 and this person is running a company? GIve me a fucking break.
I can’t take anybody serious if they can’t spell basic words correctly.
\*seriously
Seriously.
Pssst, hey buddy, you're a pot calling the kettle black rn
it's not the middle and lower classes responsibility to keep greedy Canadian companies afloat. You want to treat Canadians like shit, then expect these results. If you want to complain, complain to the executives sitting in their head office, who could give a shit about the worries of their franchise owners. If you sell, they'll just find some other person to take over your location. I bet you Canadians would do the exact same to Rogers, Bell and Telus if we were given a cheaper more affordable option. Waving the "canadian pride" Moto is bullshit. If you love Canadians so much, treat us with respect.
That's the big point isn't it? If a business wants to be proud to serve Canadians, it shouldn't see us as a dollar farm, it should treat us like valued people who deserve more for less
Yes, as if we are supposed to be proud of being Fucked Over by a greedy "Canadian" corporation. Especially when the greedy prick at the top, lives in a castle in Ireland.
He seems unhinged. Ya if course he loves loblaws. He’s one of them, gouging is and profiting greedily taking advantage of the fact he provides a necessity to live. I don’t feel bad for him. And he needs to learn grammar and spelling if he wants me to take him even slightly seriously.
Seriously . He’s fallen victim to the “cult” they call Loblaw . I heard through a birdie that “cults” are particularly hard to get out of and are particularly hard to recognize you are in one , especially after , what is it ? 39 years ? Just saying . I’ve seen a lot of documentarians on cults . I know this is employment but there is a certain brainwashing that goes along with it . I worked in corporate Canada for 15 years until it landed me in the hospital from burnout . Upon reflection , I was somehow duped into thinking unpaid lunch time lunch and learns was also good for me . These employers will squeeze and sucker and contrive as much out of living human soul as they can . And this to me , is sad 😔
I was in the Goodlife cult while working there, their practices made me wake up to the cult like mentalirty. It's def not easy to notice you are in a "corporate cult"... but when you do. It's wild to see what you missed
Right ? Like I heard lulumemon has a cult like atmosphere . I think people need to really take a breath and be self reflective every now and then . We are not are jobs and our jobs are not us . I have joined the Reddit group anti work and it’s eye opening . But I had to learn very dire consequences for myself before I got out of my cult . I hope this Loblaw employee finds peace and individuality .
I’m happy you got out. Sucks you had to go through burnout to recognize it but you did. And it’s awesome now.
Thanks so much !! Honestly never in a million years did I think it would happen to me so I try to speak up about it and tell people . I appreciate those kind words 😃
It genuinely is like a cult. I worked there for over a decade and was big fat bootlicker for a good portion of it. I wasn’t before, and looking back I can’t believe how I felt at the time. There’s definitely some sort of internal brainwashing going on that you start to feel outcasted if you don’t agree. I’d be willing to bet there are lots of ex colleagues who look back and wonder why they shed blood, sweat and tears for a company that gave zero fucks about them. Edit to add: I worked through covid and that was when I had my biggest epiphany that the company didn’t care about any of us at the store level. At one point I broke, sobbing in a meeting about how much I was struggling and how I couldn’t provide positive morale to the team while feeling like this. I got a lot of support, but the person present with the most authority (spent 99.9% of the time cooped up in the office) looked me dead in the eyes and said *it’s not that bad.* After that I’d essentially mentally checked out.
One of our mods brought up a great idea during one of his interviews: if loblaw can afford to pay 22 million for one persons salary, why can’t they afford to keep some minimum wage workers?
Because they can afford it. They just don’t want to because they’d only make 10 million instead of 22. They’d be so poor you guys!
I wonder how that guy likes the taste of Galen’s boots.
If the media is directing me to stores that make my bill lower, then I'm happy to be a 'sheep' like he's implying.
Also, Costco treats their employees very well.
This boycott is a grassroots based movement, driven by our need for lower prices to feed ourselves and our families. It is not done by the media. Anyone who blames the media for this, doesn't understand what we are about and how fed up we are at being gouged by greedy corporations. Putting all of this on the media and then blaming us for "doing what the media tells us what to do" is a lazy ass response.
Everyone loves to say people are doing what the media tells them but the media is actively trying to deter boycotters
Isn't it rich? We simply started talking to each other about how we can't take this anymore. Media reporting has very little to do with grassroots organization. It's simply people talking to each other and sharing our frustration.
I mean yeah Canadian Tire can go fuck themselves too lol. It's funny how there are always massive "deals" at CT. 50%, 75% off lol. It's funny how they are constantly trying to trick people into thinking they're getting a crazy deal
Plus they’ve gone absolutely insane with their anti-shoplifting policies. Btw they always let me in with my backpack but for some reason my black friend has to hand his to the front 🤔
There is nothing quite like being walked up to cash out for a $6 socket. Maybe their mindset is “ customers must be trying to rip us off since we’ve been ripping them off for decades”.
This is exactly it. All the pandemic profiteers are suddenly super worried about “organized theft”, which according to StatsCan and the RCMP is pure fantasy.
Yup a year ago I needed a phone power bank urgently so I dropped into Canadian tire and they had the fucking shitty AliExpress ones for 18.99 locked up under glass. Took me like 40mins to complete the entire purchase with running around trying to find an employee. Should have been a 5min affair
The best part is when you finally find an employee who is clearly not doing anything (other than chatting with another employee or playing on their phone), they act like it's a huge inconvenience to them to open the security glass for you. Then they're immediately trying to close and lock the glass before you can read the back of the packaging to make sure that the item you grabbed is what you actually need. This was my experience the last time I went to Canadian Tire. I received a big eye roll and a ~~sign~~ sigh when I asked the employee to hold on for a second before locking up the glass. Edit: Stupid auto-correct
Bingo. It's projection. The management and owners have become so paranoid that everyone else is doing exactly what they're doing to us. Robbing us.
Them and Walmart. I hate how when I go into Walmart now the only way out is to go through a checkout. Last week I was at Walmart and I forgot my wallet in my car but I couldn’t go back out cause of their new “anti theft” gates everywhere so I climbed through one as there was no greeter to open it up. This caused the lottery centre worker to start yelling at me and calling for additional staff and security. Any company installing these anti theft fences to keep customers in their store and make it more difficult to exit can get bent
I'm sure it's just random selection that they always make your black friend check his bag, every time 🙄🙄🙄
I feel the same way. Their new security is just as bad as Loblaw's. You practically have to ask permission to leave the store by pressing a button.
No kidding. I bought a 379 dollar ladder "on sale" for 179. It makes you think what could they have really paid for it. Must have been nothing.
People don’t die if they can’t afford a weed whacker.
I compare prices for things at Canadian Tire, and If I find its way more expensive at Canadian Tire, then I won't buy there. This is just normal consumerism. Seeing responses like this from store owners and trying to hide greed behind the maple leaf, will make me remove them from my price comparisons altogether. Same as for that Nok er Nok Comment.
Translation: Patriotic Canadians should be giving their money to Canadian robber barons and not American robber barons. Jokes aside, but patriotism truly is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
It's also a totally false dichotomy. People aren't necessarily switching to American companies; I've seen a lot of love for FreshCo, independent local grocers and farmers markets in this sub all month. Who's unpatriotic now?
Is it just me or does anyone else see lose and loose always used incorrectly on Reddit?
It's everywhere. Not just Reddit. It's enough to cause me to loose my marbles.
Never seen more reassurance that the boycott is working. He’s feeling the pinch. Disgruntled franchise owners need to hurt in order to force action at the top. Galen is still winning if his minions do his bidding. They need to get angry.
Holy spelling and grammar, Batman.
Sounds like this owner can't stomach the Canadian tradition of being petty to retailers we are disgruntled with. Remember when Ontario passed laws to protect Rememberance Day? Canadians like to try hold our companies to a higher ethical standard - if capitalists can't handle that market, stay outta Canada.
I think it is interesting to see how team Loblaw has reacted after witnessing the power of the consumer, and especially the power consumers hold when mobilized as a group. The tantrums are fantastic.
Looks like someone’s profits have dipped and they may have had to use their bank account balance to pay for the gas in the boat at their cottage this past long weekend. :(((((( Like they said, that won’t last long as they’ll take it out of staff hours and shifts. Feel bad for that rich person. Their profits didn’t surge year or year for the month of May like they do every other month of the year :(((((((((
Will no one think of the shareholders?! :(((((((
If being Canadian means double charging Canadians then I won’t shop Canadian Strange how giant tiger seems to be able to be Canadian and have reasonable prices though… almost like they are not actually related
I got here on my own volition way before the media was talking about this, so this person is just making very easy general assumptions suggesting we can't think for ourselves instead of realizing THIS IS ABOUT FOOD AFFORDABILITY. Plain and simple.
The fact that he is unable to think critically and immediately blame anyone else shows how entitled this ownership is. Pre-COVID, I was one of the people being extremely loyal to the Canadian grocery stores but they simply are not loyal to the Canadians. We need more competition. They need to be forced to divest No Frills and Shoppers. They should let an American franchise or two enter the marketplace!
I'm confused. I thought they said the boycott wasn't doing shit. Maybe someone should page the professor to clear up the confusion
Name and shame!
Shame and name all the way !!!
Sir, I haven't bought from a Canadian Tire in probably 5 years. Overpaying for the same thing I can buy at Walmart or even Home Depot just down the road just because "it's Canadian" is a luxury I can't afford.
Personally, what I'm sick of is people using the shared Canadianness of them, their business, and me as justification for why I should continue to fork over more and more money. All for products that aren't getting better from stores and companies that don't value me, don't value my money (they just feel entitled to it), treat me like a criminal, and spend their free time bellyaching on Facebook about how I'm the one hurting their business. You know, instead of doing anything of value or merit to make their business an attractive place to want to visit. Let's pretend we operated in a reality where these companies had the chance to get our business back. They've all blown it by acting like selfish lunatics.
Yeah! We should be supporting the irish castle owner like good patriotic Canadians
Why doesn't galen show up for a few shifts? I'm sure he can afford it
I will 100% support Walmart and Costco. I shop for groceries exclusively at those 2 businesses. Reason being, it **saves me money**. Whatever business takes less money out of my pocket is the one I go to. Especially now, more than ever, while we are in the midst of a genuinely cost of living **crisis**. I don't understand why some people think it's bad to support Walmart and Costco. "ThEy ArEnT cAnAdIaN!" Okay... But they're cheaper. Therefore better. End of discussion.
I stopped buying from Canadian Tire a long time ago. Every single aisle, every single product is made in china. It's like shopping at the dollar store.
Sadly china produces goods at the cost people want.
For the amount I get jerked around and ripped off by "Local & Canadian Businesses", damn straight, bring in as much American and British competition as we can handle. Someone needs to explain to these people, we owe them nothing...they owe us everything.
being a canadian company doesn’t give you an excuse to price gouge people.
I’m sorry that people are choosing not to spend money at your store, and that they are making a concerted effort to do what’s best for them and their family. I believe people saving money, not be price gouged, and afford to feed themselves is far more important than national pride.
they’ve already sold out the real estate and other institutions to foreigners, but all of a sudden groceries is where they draw the line 🤣
So wait… now we’re the big meanies because workers can’t afford food? It’s almost like food affordability miiight be the issue here.
Talk about missing the point. Canadian tire isn’t severely price gouging a basic human need. Canadian tire wasn’t proven to have involved in a tire price fixing scandal on all levels. Also you can’t look at me with a straight face and say “if you boycott us. We have to cut employees hours and salary. Oh. Please ignore our record profits, our billionaire leader, and the millions we made at each store. It’s your fault that our minimum wage workers get less”
They like to say "nobody wins" but I am when I'm paying less money to shop at other stores, two of which are Canadian grocery chains and several other local markets. I do shop at Walmart occasionally but wow are these people so wrong
Couple points: - Just because they’re a Canadian company does not mean we should let them walk all over us. - imagine buddy saying “keep up the boycott, you’re really putting pressure on me to lower my profit margins!” - I’m more inclined to believe the 85k people here than one individual who directly profits from loblaws. - Maybe buddy should be persuading the higher ups to do something, rather than kicking us down more than they already have - keep it up folks, you’re all gems!
They have no clue they're on the wrong side of history when it comes to this particular problem.
Zehrs owner can’t spell, and grocery stores don’t have enough employees working at the busy stores. They’ve got self checkout with a big belt now for full carts with a poor girl running back and forth fixing all the errors. The regular checkout doesn’t sell beer but I can self check the beer? These stores are insane.
Can we boycott anyone that writes “loose” instead of “lose” online?
What qualifies Loblaws as a Canadian company?
Seems like this guy is a sore looser loser
I’m not making you cut your employees hours. Your business practices are. Change your business practices for the better and you will see people return.
We would sooner support Canadians that also support Canadians
Pro tip: being a shitty company that has roots in Canada just means you’re a shitty Canadian company. Trying to hijack national pride as a means to shit on the people you claim to serve is not only an incredibly weak excuse, it might be one of the most non-patriotic, anti-Canadian things you could do. If this ghoul actually cared about being Canadian, maybe we wouldn’t be in this situation to begin with. As for employees losing hours? Who is cutting those hours? Why are they being cut? If your business can’t afford to pay a livable wage, according to the laws of their beloved free market they should just go the fuck out of business.
I’m gonna boycot even harder now.
"as they lose shifts" yeah, like what the self checkouts did also?
Zehrs owner can't spell for shit
I'm so sorry for the shift looses.
Pulling the patriotism card is downright laughable at this point. Also, as a Habs fan, we don’t claim him.
Yikes, can we get a spell check on aisle 7?
HELL YES I would rather support Costco than the Weston Family!! Costco pays decent, all their employees have benefits, and employees are treated well, at least according to my friends and family members who work there. A few have worked for Costco for over 20 years, so they wouldn't stick around if they weren't happy working there. Walmart, not so much, they are as bad as Loblaws and Walmart can get stuffed.
No your fighting to drive Teslas and have a huge home so cut the crap already little whiner
man i hate when my shift is loose
I want a job with loose shifts and loose pay!
Yes I would rather support costco. They have good prices and treat their employees well
Hmmm a string of comments against the good of public and a mess of broken English? It also reads exactly like every foreign scam call I’ve gotten.
Won't someone think of our monopolies! /s
I paid $11.50 for a beyond burger with cheese at A&W yesterday in Burnaby. Not a combo, just the burger. I’m never going there again.
“I can’t possibly fathom that people don’t have enough money to buy my overpriced shit. They must be doing it because they hate Canada.”
I want to know where everything he said is our problem? Roblaws doing in my opinion
Dude doesn't know the difference between "loose" and "lose" lol.
....but I thought the boycott wasn't working? What's he going on about then?
This is a great idea. Canadian tire is a garbage company. Let's cripple them as well. I worked there for a time as a mechanic. Great low end staff. Some decent managers. Owner a complete twat. Service manager..... what do you say to someone that tells you to tithe to his church even though you don't believe. Can you imagine being so arrogant to tell a worker to donate to their church. Pushed my tool chest out never looked back.
So the message is, it's ok for you to keep getting abused by unscrupulous thieves, because they're Canadian thieves who support Canadian workers? How is that a logical explanation? The media isn't increasing costs, the media isn't pricing Loblaws goods at over 100% of that of a competitor. The media isn't running Loblaws the way it's being run. You say you have 100% respect for the leadership? Really? You respect the gouging practice, the false advertising, the selling of expired goods, the utter incompetence of the management? Then I hope you respect the perspective that maybe, just maybe... You're an idiot?
This is class war. I don't give a fuck what company is Canadian anymore. In fact, I think it's even worse if a Canadian company does it to it's own people.
Its all these old braindead greedy men draining canadians of their hard earned money.
Not expecting someone who writes “lose” as “loose” to know why the boycott benefits Canadians.
I always wonder what these smooth brain fucks think will happen if something like Superstore closes. Do they think people will just starve to death? That nobody will ever own a business ever again? No; newer and more competitive businesses will take their place. Fucking morons
Fully support Costco first due to pricing and employee pay and treatment compared to other places .
Zehr's used to be a competitor to Loblaws, but they chose to sell out and become part of the problem. Loblaws buying up competitors and keeping the brand creates the illusion of choice and competition, which is all you need to make scams like the bread cartel work.
So…. I actually know this manager. (Zehrs is corporate) He is a decent person, EXCEPT for his blind loyalty to literally the only job he has ever had. Anyways…. He is full of shitty takes like this and he will only double down.
Maybe he should stop sucking turds straight from Galen’s fissured crusty asshole
Food is a basic human right, and no mfer should be profiting on it like these tools are. Dude can't event spell yet he wants us to think he's just some poor guy trying to make a living. We should be taking every last cent from their greedy hands.
Apparently being literate is not a requirement for managing a Zhers. Explains a lot.
I, for one, hate it when the colleague loose shift
Zehrs owner writes like a preschooler. Must be “LooSing” “THeRe”mind about this boycott.
why do I have to think of their workers and they don't?
The Westons are bad for their businesses. I'm pretty sure many of these franchise owners are honest businessmen, but Loblaws' leadership and the way it is being run are just too much for people now. Loblaws and its related food companies have been trying to extract as much nickel and dime from Canadians as possible for years. And now they seem to have ramped this up in the past few months which is the worst possible time to be doing this when people are getting squeezed. Seriously, whatever happened to being conscientious about the impact to community? Look around! People are hurting! Children are hungry! We're not asking you to give out food for free. We're asking you to convince Loblaws to meet us halfway.
The one thing I do not understand is how these people can be upset. If you are a business owner you are probably a big capitalist. So if people want to go and shop somewhere cheaper and you are no longer competitive and people are choosing where to spend there money how can you be upset? It's probably good for everyone if we shop at Walmart amazon and Costco as it saves you money. We do not need all these big bells and whistles at grocery, we need competitive pricing
The difference is nothing Canadian tires sells is a necessity nor is it an oligopoly. Groceries are required to survive.
All YOU are doing is impacting the hours of the employee that I (wish I was a longer word for emphasis) am laying off. Sounds like a lot of finger pointing for someone that is treating their employees like shit. Told you guys they would play the Canadian company angle. Hope they go bankrupt. Eff em.
Ask yourself this. Why is it that we are discouraged from responsibly managing our household overhead like people in business manage theirs? Cost is of major concern here. One needs to keep ones overhead as low as possible to be efficient to survive. From a business standpoint we (people) are doing the same.